Dahlia Beach

[tcaketess]

She said in her post that she broke several rules but the big one was the breach of security. Why on earth is she breaking and bending rules to begin with? They probably think she’s a nightmare now and word has gotten around the other shows, serves her right.

I think she has broken so many rules that she won’t ever be asked to exhibit again. If you look at her reel at the weekend she still thinks it’s ok to over step the boundaries. Her Blenheim Palace reel also shows her breaking rules by asking for a bigger pitch and being very rude on social about event helpers - she absolutely thinks she’s above any rules - she is an absolute nightmare and lives the victim card when it doesn’t go her way

 

[laughing]

Adding a screenshot in case she deletes (which she won't because she never admits that anything she does is wrong!)

Lots of dissent in the comments!

Sarah Raven, her competition, dream on love.

 

[Slip slip knit]

OMG I am so glad to have found this thread, you are my people!!

Every time I go on insta she is there screeching with the world’s most irritating voice and jumping around on a shit reel. Does the woman ever have her gob shut? She looks like a halfwit!
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And give over with the rags to riches story - former tv director, husband works in the tv industry, country pile in the cotswolds, on holiday every five minutes, au pair…

Yes I know I should unfollow but somehow I just can’t

It makes me laugh when she says they are really struggling but as she’s saying that she’s walking around Soho Farmhouse .

 

[Alicolacreme]

Just watching her latest batch of stories, had to stop and pop on:
What on EARTH does she mean ‘people that show up early or at 10 can just help, they can sweep the bus’
What?! If I paid for an event and showed up to pick flowers with my mum or someone and then got handed a broom I would tell her to shove it up her arse!
The entitlement of this woman is astounding!

 

[SDD]

She infuriates me so much. She can’t manage the workload she has and is now adding more with a load of merchandise, presumably exploiting the people who made it all who will never be mentioned again after this year. If she wants to sell flowery things, great. But she calls herself a flower farmer but just spends her days filming silly reels with her mouth open and jumping around. Her minions do all of the hard work on the farms. It’s boring and in a year or two, teaching people to do the same silly reels will not be a profitable business. The other thing that annoys me is that she “didn’t miss out on Chelsea” she was banned for breaking the rules and behaving inappropriately.

 

[OhhBacon]

I notice she put #adhdproblems on her last post. Has she actually been diagnosed with ADHD or just decided she has it? I remember her deciding she probably had it before hiring that PA (who seems to have vanished) but haven’t seen anything about her actually getting a diagnosis.
It winds me up, people casually throwing around terms like ADHD and OCD and diminishing the experiences of people who actually do live with them.

She has watched a load of tik tok videos so that's her diagnosis confirmed!

*This really bothers me too. I am quite scatty, work better under pressure, have an appalling attention span and have to run to burn off energy but I don't have ADHD nor would I go for a diagnosis. We live in a short attention span world where so much is at your finger tips and it's easy to get distracted- all of which is exaggerated by social media, where most of the influencers spend a load of time.....
I work with children who have genuine diagnosis of ADHD and it isn't a fun quirky thing it's a challenge everyday. This bunch are not helping, they suggest it should be manageable and make you a quirky go getter rather than a genuine daily challenge.
Same for OCD.

 

[Alicolacreme]

Yet another company asking professionals to work for ‘exposure’, and the florists in the comments are falling for it
Working hours on a huge installation that’s going in Millets, not to mention cutting the dahlias yourself, only for Andie to be jumping around like a flea shoving a camera in your face and then using your work all over her socials and most likely in future campaigns… Get paid for your time people!! If you have a skill you are worth money not just exposure on someone else’s platform! Your time is valuable and you are worth financial compensation for skills you worked years to develop and spent lots of your own money on!
This is such a shit deal for anyone else but Andie but her sheep are just too stupid to see it.

 

[OhhBacon]

Of course they’ve rotted, it was plain as day they were going to when they were not being cleaned and stored correctly. At any kind of scale flower growers treat dahlias as annuals as they are not reliably perennial and hard to store correctly

Wonder how the folks who bought her gift vouchers feel? As a keen Gardner and Dahlia lover there is not a hope I would spend money here. The whole business is erratic, chaotic and unprofessional; she shows this on a daily basis. No wonder her husband is not happy with her.

 

[AutumnDays]

She isn’t running a viable business at all. People will soon realise they are mugs to pay £1 to enter a field, dig up a dahlia tuber for £5 and then bring it home and store it over-winter. Looking for volunteers for everything, though I think she now pays helpers £10 an hour. Her boxes of dahlia tubers are ridiculously over-priced.

She wants the ££ but doesn’t want to put in the effort. Her wholesale field didn’t fail just because of the summer drought, she was late sowing the field and them went on holidays during the driest spell and left the field unattended. Most people who set up a business hang around during the crucial time.

If Eve leaves, it will be a disaster for her.

 

[bl2020]

Has no one mentioned Andie telling the King that she made her flower crown herself when she absolutely did not

 

[Notenoughgin]

Absolutely everyone I know growing veg or flowers has been over run by slugs this year. It’s on all my gardening Facebook groups and Instagram. It’s in our village newsletter even. So why has this lemon completely missed the memo. The membrane whilst suppressing weeds is all ruched up at the edges and looks like a wonderful place for slugs and snails to retreat to after a nice midnight feast. I’ve been out with my head torch on my dahlias (I’ve about 20 or so) and literally can collect a hundred in an evening. She must be thick as shit. And yes slugs and snails will eat stalks as well as leaves ypu dopey cow.

 

[Yellowsubmarine]

Confused.
So, two fields very close to each other. One in full flower with (according to Andi) “millions of flowers” and the other field - a lack of flowers.
But she says it was the awful weather that’s to blame for lack of flowers at PYO? So it rained all the time and no sun on one field but all good on the other field that has loads of flowers??
Or maybe it was the late planting maybe? And maybe the late pinching out just 4 weeks ago?
Let’s be honest, it wasn’t the weather was it…that just clearly isn’t true!

 

[whatanabsolutewholloper]

I hear (sister-in-law is in the flower industry) that Andie has been posting on flower grower/farmer forums that she’s going to set up subscription flowers through the post and asking for tips. The responses from the experienced growers that had tried it advised her that it would be more trouble than it’s worth for several reasons - logistically difficult, lots of admin around couriers and deliveries, damage/waste, goes against the messaging about British flowers being the sustainable choice…etc etc

Of course Boss Babe knows best and will ignore all of this because it’s all about designing a pretty box and making reels about it.

What do you think the reel audio will be? ‘signed sealed delivered’ has got to feature surely

Then cue lots of forthcoming meltdowns, filming herself crying, then ‘overcoming the adversity’ )(probably with the help of free labour from instafans) and dancing around waving boxes to the audio of ‘rise up’, ‘hero’, and ‘this girl is on fire’

 

[Alicolacreme]

Finally now Tattle is open I can share these. I used to work at Chelsea and have some Dahlia Beach stories…

During press day every year, the Queen would visit the show on the Monday. Only some exhibitors get invited to stick around for this. During the walk around last year, the Queen had a private moment with Chelsea Pensioners that no-one, not even the event organisers, was allowed to take photos of. Despite being told she couldn’t take photos, they literally watched her run over and snap a quick picture which she had to be asked to remove. Absolutely no shame. She repeatedly broke the rules for sharing too much video footage which is due to a contract the event has with the BBC which limits what exhibitors can share. She seemed to think she was above it and the rules didn’t apply to her.

She tried to launch a social media consultancy at some point (is she still doing this? I don’t follow her). She got in touch with the Chelsea social team and pitched her services by saying they weren’t sharing enough video footage of Chelsea and that she could do a better job. Not sure doing cringey reels makes you more of an expert than a whole team who do it for a living. She was then explained the formalities of the BBC contract they have (that again limits footage shared even for the event organisers) and then they didn’t hear back from her again presumably because she was too embarrassed…!

Absolutely hilarious that the RHS have banned her for a year. No-one at the RHS likes her. Those other rules she broke that she didn’t mention were the social media rules again. She posted footage from the King on press day that absolutely isn’t allowed, and she know this, the RHS have told her this before, and she doesn’t care. Not playing by the rules has bitten her in the arse now, hasn’t it?

TEA thanks for sharing!!

 

[Notenoughgin]

I was bought some of her dahlias and so have the ‘exclusive access’ to the Facebook group. Very little there for the members from her royal dahlia highness Andie, but one thing I’m consistently seeing is people who have ordered certain collections and now they are coming into bloom they can see they have not been sent what was ordered. When buying ‘collections’ that are supposedly curated to be complementary, that’s a pretty big balls up. There also is quite a bit of dahlia gall - disease.
This woman is a con artist!!

(Comments on last pink flower ‘that’s not ‘Linda’s baby’ variety)

 

[geneticsgirl]

She is advertising for an au pair and various staff if you followed her no way would you got a work for that disaster waiting to happen. Also those boss babes in the comments all full of sympathy even though it's her behavior and breaking rules that got her in the position in the first place.

 

[Rainbow Blossom]

Minimum wage for ten years give me a break! They clearly have money, and she clearly comes from money too with her sugary affected private school accent. Her account is almost cult like, which is deliberate and very clever on her part. Something a bit MLM about it which is probably the direction she’s planning to go in.
There isn’t an ounce of self awareness or humility in her. An absolute nightmare to work with/for, I’m sure.

 

[Notenoughgin]

Sorry if this has been said before but the flowers are just peg she has chosen to try to hang her social media career on. She doesn’t give a flying fuck about dahlias. She wants to be adored and ‘famous’ It’s all for show. She doesn’t want to genuinely learn about farming and being a British grower. The complete lack of care and regard for the customers she has sent poor quality dahlia tubers or even the wrong varieties (and lots with gall) to the facebook group shows she has no clue what she is doing!

 

[Slip slip knit]

I honestly can’t believe people buy her 5 tubers for £59.99 when you can get 6 for £21.30 from Farmer Gracy . I know she says it comes with growing advice but you can get that for free from YouTube or Instagram.

 

[Fleurloz]

It’s quite apparent how much Eve really ran the show isn’t it! Properly gone to shit since she left. I hope Eve has every success!